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LibriVox recording of Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, by Mark Twain. Read by John Greenman. This was the last story published by Twain, a few months before he died. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven. It deals with the obsession of souls with the "celebrities" of heaven, like Adam and Moses, who according to Twain become as distant to most people in heaven as living celebrities are on Earth. Twain uses this... Topics: Humor, Samuel Clemens, short stories, Librivox, audiobook Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text

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Published in the Dec. 1912 edition of Harper's Magazine, this "short story" by Mark Twain delves deeply into a recurring dream world he experienced for most of his life, he says. Wikipedia has listed it as possibly non-fiction. This is among his last writings. ( 1 reviews ) Topics: dream, dreams, psychic phenomena, recurrent dreams, Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived.This epub version was created by MobileRead user Jellby and includes the illustrations of the first edition by True Williams Topics: mississippi river, fiction

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LibriVox recording of Mark Twain's Journal Writings, Volume 3. Read by John Greenman. This third volume of Mark Twain's journal writings continues on eclectic and varied path established by the first two volumes. Included in this collection are works that appeared by themselves in magazines during Twain's lifetime, as well as essays taken by editors and Twain himself from Twain's larger works, and re-published in collections of his stories. This volume includes the following works: "Buying... Topics: LibriVox, audio book, humor, essay-short-nonfiction, short-stories Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text

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"Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it."Most would agree that lying in most situations is to be avoided. This short story is by one of my favorite liers Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain. This is a Librivox recording and is in the public domain. You will find it as section 4 of the book The $30,000 Bequest. Read by John Greenman.To me the importance of this story is that we all tells lies and that there is... Topics: Mark, Twain, Heaven, Hell, $30, 000, Bequest, truth, lies

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LibriVox recording of Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences, by Mark Twain. [Read by John Greenman.] This is Mark Twain's vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper's literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twain's essay, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses (often spelled "Offences") (1895), particularly criticized The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder. Twain wrote at the beginning of the essay: 'In one place in Deerslayer, and in the restricted space of two-thirds of... Topics: librivox, audiobook, twain, fenimore cooper Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text

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LibriVox recording of The Awful German Language, by Mark Twain. Read by Kirsten Wever. This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, complains about, and shows how one might improve upon various aspects of the (awful) German language. His examples of precisely how the German language is awful include the famed “separable verb” – which allows one to put the first part of a given verb at the beginning... ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Humor, languages, travel, essay, Samuel Clemens, Librivox, audiobook Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text

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LibriVox recording of The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories, by Mark Twain. Read by multiple volunteers. A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. (Summary by Tricia G) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover, M4B or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org. ( 1 reviews ) Topics: librivox, audiobook, Mark Twain, humor, short stories, anecdotes Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text

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LibriVox recording of The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain. Read in English by bscottholmes Samuel L. Clemens' (Mark Twain) journey to Europe and the Holy Land in 1866. Reportedly his best selling book. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.Download M4B 00-19 (180MB)... Topics: librivox, audiobooks

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LibriVox recording of OLD TIMES ON THE MISSISSIPPI, by MARK TWAIN. Read by John Greenman. Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly, in 1875, this same work was published as chapters 4 through 17 in Twain's later work, Life on the Mississippi (1883). Old Times on the the Mississippi has one last chapter that has nothing to do with the rest of the book. A Literary Nightmare describes the... Topics: librivox, audiobook, river, boats, history Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text

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LibriVox recording of Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 1 by Mark Twain. Read by John Greenman. This collection of essays by Mark Twain are a good example of not only how prolific he was but also how he became a consummate marketer of his works. Many of his essays appeared alone, in magazines or newspapers, before being printed as chapters of his larger works while others were taken from larger works and reprinted in collections of essays. Volume 1 contains these 11 essays: 1.)... ( 1 reviews ) Topics: LibriVox, audio book, humor, essay-short-nonfiction, short-stories Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text